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2. Re: ExoticaX...

• Posted by Martin Stachon <martin.stachon at worldonline.cz> Jan 23, 2002
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I run donuts at 74 fps at 8 bpp but 19 fps at 16 bpp.
The performance is significantly dropping when using 16 bits.
I can run smoothly more complicated 3D games at 16 bits.

IDT Winchip MMX 200 Mhz (The cpu rocks - its not well optimised
for 32 bit apps and in some tests is slower than pentium 100 
192 MB RAM
S3 Trio 64V+ 1MB & 3Dfx Voodoo 4MB
DX 8.0

    Martin

> I have just looked at your next post, and your computer specs.
> 
> You should have NO trouble whatsoever running Donuts. I just finished 
> testing to be sure. And ran into the same thing you are saying, but I 
> had winMX and Morpheus running in the background :P
> I closed them, ran Donuts again, and I played all the way to level 13.
> The FPS was stable at 58(for some reason it never reports 60) the whole 
> time. It only ever fluctuated 1 frame.
> 
> Try closing anything you might have running in the background that you 
> don't need. If that doesn't help, or isn't the situation, maybe ya just 
> simply need to reboot.
> If THAT still doesn't help, check the E_Report.txt file, and see if 
> everything was laoded into hardware modes.
> You could also try reducing the number of buffers available for the 
> sound effects. Where the sounds are loaded, in the donuts demo, change 
> all the buffer values of 10, to 5.
> 
> None of this should be necessary though. Your computer more than meets 
> the demands of any of those demos.
> 
> I ran FPS_rate.exw and am able to blit 45 bmp's to the screen without 
> frameskipping.
> 
> I am running :
> win98se/DX8.0
> PIII 600mhz/64MB
> 8M S3 Savage/IX video
> ESS Maestro2E soundcard
> 
> I'd be interested to know which demos failed too if ya don't mind.
> 
> Chris
> 
> C. K. Lester wrote:
> > ...ROCKS!
> > 
> > Hats off to Chris Bensler and Todd Riggins.
> > 
> > I've got DirectX 8.1 loaded and only two or three of the demo programs 
> > locks my machine. The Donuts game runs great. I just spin and spin while 
> > 
> > shooting... cheap, I know!
> > 
> > How come Donuts is set for 60 fps but drops to 49 when I play it?
> > 
> > 
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